1.   A Commission of Inquiry into Peat and Peatlands set up by Plantlife, a plant conservation trust, has submitted its report to the House of Lords.

2.   As a bonus, we could reduce suburban sprawl by putting the former farmland into a perpetual conservation trust.

3.   Cabot and his French-born wife, Bernadette, put Boggy Meadow into a conservation trust.

4.   They propose the government buy land from willing sellers, or manage it through conservation trusts that offer tax incentives.